The Fillmore, Music venue in San Francisco, United States.
The Fillmore sits at 1805 Geary Boulevard and offers a main hall on the second floor with space for 1,315 visitors. The stage stands at the end of a large open room that includes a mezzanine overlooking the standing floor below.
Designed by architects James and Merritt Reid in an Italianate style, the building opened in 1912 as the Majestic Hall and Academy of Dancing. It was renamed the Ambassador Dance Hall in 1936 and served as a roller skating rink from 1939 to 1952. In 1954 Charles Sullivan took over the lease on the dilapidated hall, booked Black artists such as James Brown and Ike & Tina Turner, and renamed it the Fillmore Auditorium. After Sullivan was found shot to death in August 1966, Bill Graham took over the venue under their contract.
The Fillmore name comes from the surrounding Fillmore District, and the venue's walls are covered with original concert posters from four decades of rock music, not photographs. The neighbourhood holds an annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, described as the largest free jazz festival on the American west coast.
Entry requires mobile tickets, and bags may measure up to 12 x 6 x 12 inches (30 x 15 x 30 cm). Bus lines 38 Geary and 22 Fillmore stop near the entrance.
The walls are hung with original concert posters from four decades of rock music, not photographs. The Fillmore East in New York, which opened on 8 March 1968, was nicknamed "The Church of Rock and Roll"; that building now houses a bank.
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